“I prefer an accommodating vice
To an obstinate virtue.”
Molière (1622–1673) French playwright and actor
J'aime mieux un vice commode,
Qu'une fatigante vertu.
Act I, sc. iv
Amphitryon (1666)
“Preference of vice to virtue, a manifest wrong judgment.”
Book II, Ch. 21, sec. 70
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)
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Louis Bourdaloue (1632–1704) French serman writer
as quoted in The Bourgeois: Catholicism vs. Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century France (1927), p. 137
“As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Attributed to Einstein in Albert Einstein: A Documentary Biography by Carl Seeling (1956), p. 114 http://books.google.com/books?id=VCbPAAAAMAAJ&q=%22silent+vice%22#search_anchor. Einstein is said to have made this remark "when someone in his company grew angry about a mutual acquaintance's moral decline". <br class="br">Attributed in posthumous publications
“Virtue with poverty didst thou prefer
To the possession of great wealth with vice.”
Dante Alighieri book Purgatorio
Canto XX, lines 26–27 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio
“Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice.”
Albert Pike book Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
Source: Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871), Ch. III : The Master, p. 73
“Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.”
Molière (1622–1673) French playwright and actor
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
Vice and Virtue, ii
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part II - Elementary Morality
“The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Circles
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Ben Jonson (1572–1637) English writer
Epode, lines 1-4
The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio (1616), The Forest
“Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied,
And vice sometime by action dignified.”
William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet
Source: Romeo and Juliet